[ItendToDisagree]

Damn them LIBRULS!

Never mind that actual healthcare costs are more expensive than in other countries on a pill by pill and procedure by procedure basis.

Healthcare cost in the United States isn't about liberal or conservative or progressive or whatever label. Get over your tribal blame game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-an-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/26/21-gr...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-...

[chiefalchemist]

Yeah. Thanks. And nevermind that cost is a function of demand. It's simple...they cost more because they can. People's health is so f'ed they have no choice. Try this: look at the cost of those pills and then look at the p/c occurrence of the diseases they enable in that country? Again, go back to the pull quote from the OP.

Decrease demand (i.e., stop eating and lifestyle'ing in ways that are unhealthy) and prices will fall. But we refuse to prevent the preventable, and then complain about costs?

My point is simple. You can't talk responsibility about healthcare and costs without talking about personal health and personal responsibility for health. Health and healthiness drives healthcare cost.

[mikelyons]

People do the best they can with the level of awareness that's available to them.

[tbihl]

You embarrass yourself by responding to parent's inane political jab. It's pure signalling, without any hint of substance to contradict.

But, if you insist on making a straw man out of it, as you have, the popular term seems to be 'lib-tard', to judge from my Very talkative coworker.